Given that pretty much (I haven't checked but I'll lay odds) none of our team or theirs or our management or theirs were involved in any of those replays over the last 30 years, that's all irrelevant though, other than as a superstition.

It would be more logical to take a look at the stats of every player in both teams, see how many cup games or replays they have each played and work out the probability of a win from there.....

Indeed. Or even look at the performance of 4th tier teams in cup replays over the past decade, that might at least give an idea of a likelihood of outcome. But 8 matches spread over 30 years, while an interesting piece of trivia, and it is interesting from that point of view, gives no useful indication of how this replay is likely to go.

We wouldn't need to if he wasn't constantly infecting the forum with his drivel.

Bit harsh. Personally I find the historical trivia mildly interesting, it gives a sense of perspective on where we have been as a club, it's the attempt to pass it off as significant for the current team's likely performance that I find irritating, because it's clearly not true

One thing that yesterday and early season did show is that we play much better football and retain possession easier with one up front (as we have the extra centre mid) but are less dangerous up front. Just need to find a Balance between the 2 systems and we should be right up there at the end of the season. Very useful that we can play both ways and I would class that as having a plan B rather than the plan b being to hoof it up to a target man as some have suggested in the past.

I've been saying all season we control games better when we play 433 but yes the goal threat is lacking, our worst and best performances this season have been playing 442. Now that we have DJ we have another option out wide as he is a threat, once Isgrove and Keshi are back it really is a quandry how we setup. The added complication is that Doughty plays much better in a 433 than any other formation as he can play with a little bit more freedom than in a deep two, and running onto the ball which he can't in a 4231. With all players fit I'd play 433 and Keshi Doyle Isgrove being the front three, but I'd also think we should try playing Doyle Yates Isgrove with Yates slightly behind the other two and told to chase lost causes and run the defenders down.